As night fell across a remote region of northern Australia, a “velvet” creature emerged from a pile of rocks. Its hard-to-reach habitat and camouflaged coloring helped it go largely unnoticed — until ...

Basalt velvet geckos live on “exposed, piled, black basalt rocks,” the study said. Hoskin saw them “active at night.” When “disturbed,” the geckos retreated “into deep crevices and h ...

grayish black basalt rock and the Atlantic ocean below. In mid November the area hosted a climbing meeting with the aim of promoting the crag which quickly became known as Portugal's "little Indian ...